Improvement in car-couplings



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J. BANKS.

CAR-COUPLING. No.176,267, Patented April 18, 1876.

PATENT OFFICE.

- JAMES BANKS, or Tom BLANGHARD, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,267, dated April 18, 1876; March 10, 1876.

- of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Couplings for Railroad-(Jars, of which the following is a specification The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement'of .a car-coupling, as will be hereinafter more fully Set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and-use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure l is a perspective view of the end of one car with my coupling attached thereto. Fig. 2 is tVbOlJliOlIl view of two cars coupled together. Figs. 3 and 4 are cross-sections of the coupling, and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal seccar, under the bottom of which are secured two parallel guides, B B, and in said guides are placed twp sliding plates, 0 O, as shown. Through theends of these plates are passed the bufl'er-bars D D, which are surrounded by spiral springs to between the slides. The bars 1) are formed with shoulders 00, in front of the front slide, and have pins y, or other equivalent devices, on their rear ends, to prevent their being drawn out in front. The front ends of the bumper-bars extend out in front of the car through a face-plate, E, attached thereto. Through an opening, 1;, in the center of said face-plate is passed the couplingbar Gr, formed with a hook, d, on its outer end, said bar entering the slides G O, in the usual manner. The hook d is made diamond-pointed, or sharp, to avoid buffing with the oppo site hook; and the rod or bar G is provided with collars, pins, or other suitable devices in front and rear of the buffer-slides. The holes application filed in said slides for the passage of this bar are made enlarged, so as to allow of its being moved in any direction for a Short distance. The shank or bar G, between the slides 0, is made flat or square, with a drum or pulley, H, placed thereon for turning the same. To this drum are fastened two chains, f f, which are wound on the drum in opposite directions, and then pass around two pulleys, e 0, near one side of the car, and fastened to the lower end of a vertical shaft, I, that passes up along the end of the car, through a suitable guide-plate, h, and has a hand-wheel, J, on its upper end. Above the guide-plate h on the shaft I is secured a notched disk, at, and on said guideplate is pivoted a lever or pawl, m, to take into the notches on the disk, and thereby hold the shaft from turning.

When the pawl m is raised, the shaft 1 may be turned, and, by means of the chains 6 and drum H,turn the shank or bar G,so as to bring the hook at in a horizontal position for coupling with or uncoupling from the opposite hook, which is in a vertical'position, it being held in such position by means of a weight, L, suspended from an arm on the bar.

The buffers may be dispensed with, and the buffer-springs placed upon the rods or Shanks Gr.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the buffer-slides O 0, rod or bar G, with hook d, drum H, chains ff, pulleys e e, shaft I, with hand-wheel J, and notched disk at, and the pawl m, all substantially as and for the purposeshereiu set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES BANKS.

Witnesses:

HENRY ARON, J oSEPE HILLMAN.

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B. BEVELANDER. NAIL SEPARATING MACHINE.

Patented April 18, 1876.

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